Miss Fiona MacNeill
- Consultant Surgeon
- MBBS
- FRCS
- MD
Biography
Miss Fiona MacNeill has been a specialist consultant breast and reconstructive surgeon since 1996. Her main interest is oncoplastic breast surgery – achieving the best outcomes in cancer surgery and breast appearance.
She and her plastic surgery colleagues collaborate closely to offer a comprehensive and innovative approach to the maintenance of breast shape and image after breast cancer surgery. She has lectured widely in the UK and Europe and was a founder of the first oncoplastic training programme.
She is breast tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons, responsible for developing a national breast education and training portfolio. She has successfully delivered the national sentinel node training programme NEW START. Her achievements in education were recognised in 2006 when she was awarded the Silver Scalpel Trainer of the Year.
Miss MacNeill remains actively engaged in local and national research trials. She acts in an advisory capacity to a variety of Department of Health committees to optimise breast services and plan future cancer strategy. In addition she is a member of a number of professional associations, most notably the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS @BASO) where she is the chairman of the education and training committee.
Miss MacNeill qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, in 1983 and was awarded an MD thesis in 1994 investigating novel breast cancer therapies. Appointed consultant surgeon in 1996 at Colchester she established and led a highly successful breast unit before moving to The Royal Marsden in 2006.
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